Kiyoshi Honda, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, “Predicting the Release Time Based on a Generalized Software Reliability Model (GSRM),” Proceedings of the 38th Annual IEEE International Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Fast Abstract, pp.XX-YY, Västerås, Sweden 21–25 July, 2014. (to appear) (compsac2014_submission_494.pdf)

Development environments have changed drastically, development periods are shorter than ever and the number of team members has increased. Especially in open source software (OSS), a large number of developers contribute to OSS. OSS have difficulties in predicting or deciding when it will release. In order to assess recent software developments, we proposed a generalized software reliability model (GSRM) based on a
stochastic process, and compared GSRM with other models. In this paper, we focus on the release dates of OSS and the growth of faults (issues).